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For the fourth year, the National Television Academy hands out Broadband Awards.

In 2003, the National Television Academy launched an Emmy competition for Advanced Media, meaning broadband programming, packaging the event under the umbrella of its Science, Technology & Engineering Awards show. This year, for the first time, the trophies will be handed out at tonight's NTA ceremony at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

"There is a growing recognition in the business and from the consumers watching the screens that all of that comes through the new technologies that are changing the viewing experience," NTA president and CEO Peter Price says.

With well more than 100,000 attendees from all walks of media and technology, the decision to move the ST&E Emmys to CES was a no-brainer, according to Shelly Palmer, chair of NTA's Advanced Media Group. "It's become a really important show for television and media in general," Palmer notes.

As part of the festivities, NTA will give a Lifetime Achievement Award to DirecTV Group vice chairman Eddy Hartenstein for his role in the development of the commercial satellite business.

Following is a list of nominees in the Broadband & Personal Television categories. Nominees are selected by a panel of judges from entries submitted by their originators. For reader convenience, the category titles have been shortened (sparing the need to ponder the meaning of things like "asynchronous transmission").